Control: reassign 907264 libc6 2.33-7
Control: retitle 907264 glibc's strptime does not handle %z and %Z as expected
Control: affects 907264 + faketime

On Sat 2018-08-25 21:44:04 +0200, Wolfgang Hommel wrote:
> Apparently, glibc goes for a new tm->tm_gmtoff field and supports %z 
> (but not %Z) fully yet. This might give some headaches regarding 
> cross-platform compatibility, and implementing a completely own parser 
> (i.e., not using strptime()) does not seem viable, either. So yes, this 
> needs to be addressed, but will take some time.

Since the problem appears to be in strptime(), i'm reassigning this bug
to glibc.

   --dkg

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